Three drafts of a description of the history and business of House Plantation, a plantation owned by Arcola Sugar Mills Company. Sources include Bill Griffin, who lived on the plantation for 61 years and W. L. Howse, a former manager of the Arcola...
Three men working on a race car at track in Bellaire (Tex.), sometime during the 1920's. In the distance open touring cars are lined up side-by-side at the far edge of the dirt racetrack.
Two men oversee suitcases on conveyor belt to a Pan-American Airways Clipper Guiding Star plane. The tail of a Braniff Airways plane is visible on the right. In the background, some of the Houston Municipal Airport terminal can be seen.
Two-story buildings resembling dormitories or military barracks with screened porches on front and back; during construction of the Panama Canal 1907-08
Contains brief except from the Documentary Source Book of American History that details the Treaty with Spain that outlined the boundaries between Spain and the United States of America at the Floridas.
Subtitle: Containing the present state, county and city governments; a complete list of all county officials, post offices and money order offices in Texas; also, an index of societies, associations, churches, corporations, educational institutes;...
